Improvement in fence-post



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tira] Mmm EZEKIEL s. GOODRICH, or OAKLAND, WISCONSIN. team Patent No.88,866, dated Almz 18, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT iN FENCE-POST.`

The Schedule referred to in 'diese Letters Pate-nt and makingpart of thname.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZEKIEL S. GooDRIcH, of Oakland, of the county ofJefferson, in the State -of Wisoonsin, have invented a new and improvedFence-Post and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the artto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in whichf- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improvedfence-post.

Figure 2, an end elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists in constructinga fence-post, bysetting a post of wood on a stone base, and support-ing it in an uprightposition with wire and wooden braces.

To enable others to use my invention, I will proceed to describe itsconstruction.

I take a stone, A, of any convenient size to be had,

all that is necessary being that it has a base sufficiently broad tosupport the post firmly. On tbissto'ne I set a wooden post, B, in anupright position, Where it is held by'the wire, O, passed through ahole,a, near the top of the post and underv the bottom of the stone, the endsof the wire being fastened together and drawn tightly, as shown at l1,fig. 1.

The bottom of the'post yis held in its position bya base-brace of wood,D, placed between-the wire and the foot of the post on each side, asshown Vin the drawing.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s-.A The combination of the stone base A, wooden post .B, Wire base C, andwooden base-braces D, as herein described, for the purpose speciiied.

EZEKIEL S. GOODRICH.

Witnesses:

E. A. HART, M.' E.. HART.

